Chapter 73: The Kiss That Went Wrong
The process of transferring the sleep-inducing potion through a kiss actually went wrong. Before he could pass everything, she punched him in the gut and he choked on the rest of the potion, mistakenly ingesting it himself.
THAT was why he now woke up after an unknown amount of time of being unconscious, and the first thing he saw was a pair of red eyes gazing at him intently from uncomfortably close range. As his vision cleared, he could make out strands of purple hair falling across his face.
"You’re alive," Jenny said matter-of-factly, then moved back to give him some breathing room. He could now see the pink ceiling above him—clearly, he was on her side of the room.
"Ugh," he groaned, attempting to sit up, but she immediately pushed him back down with surprising firmness.
"Don’t get up yet. Your arms are still growing back," she said, as if this was the most normal thing in the world.
That had to be the most bizarre sentence he’d ever heard. He was just about to ask her what she meant when it suddenly hit him—a pain so intense he nearly passed out again.
"Tsk, see? I told you," she said with the satisfaction of someone who’d just been proven right about something terrible.
He bit his lips hard enough to draw blood, trying to ground himself against the overwhelming agony, but it was useless. The pain just kept intensifying, waves of it crashing over him relentlessly.
Forcing his eyes open, he took in the damage. His shorts had been burned up to his thighs, and the sleeves of his shirt were completely gone. His legs appeared to be intact, but his arms... his arms were literally regrowing. He could see new tissue forming where there had been nothing but stumps.
"Just what exactly happened here?" came another voice—definitely not Jenny’s.
"Well... he made some weird soup... actually, that wasn’t even soup. He made some stupid concoction, and I ended up drinking it," Jenny replied, her tone suggesting this was a perfectly reasonable explanation.
"He made you drink it?" the other girl pressed.